My first post : Ubuntu Desktop Guide - Connecting to the Internet

[Matthew East]

Hello, and welcome!

On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 01:22 +0200, Karderio wrote:
> First of all there is very little information on how to get connected
> to Internet in the desktop guide (in Yelp) : it only mentions ADSL
> Modems and Winmodems, and then all useful information is provided as
> links to the wiki, which we found rather silly.

Yeah, we have a bug on this, and it is something we'd very much like to
improve on for the next version.

[...]
> I have been hacking on the wiki for a couple of days (mainly pages
> linked to from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/InternetHowto), but there is
> still a lot of work to do. I don't know if this information is
> acceptable for the desktop guide (when the docs are more complete, I
> will read your style guide and apply this).

(For wiki work, take a look at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WikiGuide which
has some tips about how we like people working on documentation in the
wiki to go about things).

> I would be happy to continue to complete the wiki as best I can and
> convert this to docbook if you would like to include this in the
> documentation.

This is a good place to start definitely. The better the material on the
wiki is, the easier it will be to incorporate it into our guides when we
start writing for the next version. Yeah, it sucks that we don't have
much documentation onboard for connecting to the internet with tricky
hardware, but the best we can do right now is to improve the wiki
resources, so that people can use other operating systems to find out,
or other interfaces, and then we can use the wiki material to improve
the onboard documentation.

> Is it too late to get any mods into Dapper before release ? I don't
> see any translations, so I suppose it could be possible...

I'm not sure what you mean by mods, but yeah, it's too late. Dapper is
coming out next week!

Thanks for your post, and your work on those pages, and we look forward
to more of it, and to having you around.

Matt
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